10 Spectacularly Wrong Movie Reviews

6. Factual Errors About Cabin In The Woods

It took a while to get released, having been finished off conclusively in 2009 but delayed from cinemas until 2012, but Joss Whedon and Drew Godard's fourth-wall-demolishing deconstruction of horror movies was well worth the wait. It was smart, funny, and made us collectively worry about mermen for the first time in our collective lives. The film was both a critical and financial success receiving positive reviews, as well it should - the script was clever, the performances were stellar, and never have we spent longer staring at a whiteboard. Like, not even at school. Which might explain a lot. A handful of audience members were disappointed that it wasn't quite the rote teen slasher flick they were expecting, but for the most part, people loved it. Rex Reed didn't, though.

Rex Reed is a terrible person. He's also a crummy film critic. Recently he's courted controversy for mentioning the weights of female movie stars in his reviews, because that's one of the most important aspects of film analysis, along with discussing the script or photography. He doesn't even have the decency to dress it up as, we don't know, a critique of the mise en scene. As he is a buffoon. Reed's review of Cabin In The Woods pegged it as so "stupid it makes trashy slash-and-burn epics like Humans Versus Zombies and I Spit on Your Grave seem like Molière and Proust", which are big words for a man who literally didn't understand the movie was a satire. Not only is his opinion wrong, but he also totally didn't get what the film was about. Or the ending. Or anything.